IIE Publications for Members

IIE's Best Practices Resource

The Best Practices Resource includes feature profiles on each of the winning programs from more than 10 years of Heiskell Awards, along with honorable mention and special recognition recipients. The extensive collection of successful models is intended to provide hands-on help to campuses as they create and expand their own initiatives. In the box at right, expand each section and click on the name of the winning campus to see profiles of the winning initiatives in each category since the inception of the Heiskell Awards. For IIENetwork Members, a special members-only section contains details on the programs' implementation.

The Andrew Heiskell Awards

The Institute of International Education (IIE) created the Heiskell awards in 2001 to promote and honor the most outstanding initiatives that are being conducted in international higher education by IIENetwork member universities and colleges. By recognizing excellence and innovation, the Institute hopes to support IIENetwork members in their endeavors and to signal a new and important role for international education on campus.

IIE's Heiskell Awards showcase the most innovative and successful models for internationalization of campuses, study abroad, and international partnership programs in practice today. We are particularly interested in highlighting initiatives that remove institutional barriers and broaden the base of participation in international teaching and learning on campus.

The goals of IIE's Heiskell Awards are:

To foster innovative ideas that will help international education professionals create and sustain new opportunities for students and faculty

To bring international education to the forefront of education policy

To stimulate public awareness of the benefits of study abroad and international educational exchange

The 2015 Andrew Heiskell Award Winners

CATEGORY: Internationalizing the Campus

Advancing curriculum development, fostering international opportunities and creatively integrating international students into university life.

CATEGORY: Study Abroad

Providing innovative programs and services to make study abroad more accessible to a broader student population. Special emphasis on specific efforts that led to a strong increase in study abroad participation.